Constructed in 1898, the Charlestown Bridge, also known as the North Washington Street Bridge, crosses the Charles River where it flows into Boston Harbor. Just east of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, it provides pedestrian and auto access along the Freedom Trail, connecting the North End and Charlestown.
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Constructed in 1898, the Charlestown Bridge, also known as the North Washington Street Bridge, crosses the Charles River where it flows into Boston Harbor. Just east of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, it provides pedestrian and auto access along the Freedom Trail, connecting the North End and Charlestown.
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The Paul Revere Monument was designed by sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin in 1885 but wasn't cast until 1940 and dedicated in Paul Revere Mall between Salem and Hanover Streets on September 22, 1940. The equestrian portrait depicts the American patriot on his famous "Midnight Ride", which occurred on the night of April 18, 1775, when he and William Dawes were instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British army, marching to arrest and seize the weapons stores in Concord. After being rowed across the Charles River to Charlestown by two associates, Paul Revere borrowed a horse from his friend Deacon John Larkin. There he verified that the local "Sons of Liberty" committee had seen his pre-arranged signals. Two lanterns had been hung briefly in the bell-tower of Christ Church in Boston, indicating that troops would row "by sea" across the Charles River to Cambridge, rather than marching "by land" out Boston Neck. ..On the way he "alarmed" the country-side, stopping at each house, and arrived in Lexington about midnight. After delivering his message, Revere was joined by Dawes, who had been sent on the same errand by a different (much longer) route. Deciding on their own to continue on to Concord, Massachusetts, where weapons and supplies were hidden, Revere and Dawes were joined by a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott. Soon after, all three were arrested by a British patrol. Prescott escaped almost immediately, and Dawes soon after. Revere was held for some time and then released. Left without a horse, Revere returned to Lexington in time to witness part of the battle on the Lexington Green. ..In 1861, over 40 years after his death, he became the subject of Paul Revere's Ride, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow took many liberties, giving credit to Revere for the collective achievements of the three riders, as well as claiming that the lanterns were a signal for Revere and not from him. As a result, historians often consider Revere's role exaggerated, becoming a national myth.
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The Paul Revere Monument was designed by sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin in 1885 but wasn't cast until 1940 and dedicated in Paul Revere Mall between Salem and Hanover Streets on September 22, 1940. The equestrian portrait depicts the American patriot on his famous "Midnight Ride", which occurred on the night of April 18, 1775, when he and William Dawes were instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British army, marching to arrest and seize the weapons stores in Concord. After being rowed across the Charles River to Charlestown by two associates, Paul Revere borrowed a horse from his friend Deacon John Larkin. There he verified that the local "Sons of Liberty" committee had seen his pre-arranged signals. Two lanterns had been hung briefly in the bell-tower of Christ Church in Boston, indicating that troops would row "by sea" across the Charles River to Cambridge, rather than marching "by land" out Boston Neck. ..On the way he "alarmed" the country-side, stopping at each house, and arrived in Lexington about midnight. After delivering his message, Revere was joined by Dawes, who had been sent on the same errand by a different (much longer) route. Deciding on their own to continue on to Concord, Massachusetts, where weapons and supplies were hidden, Revere and Dawes were joined by a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott. Soon after, all three were arrested by a British patrol. Prescott escaped almost immediately, and Dawes soon after. Revere was held for some time and then released. Left without a horse, Revere returned to Lexington in time to witness part of the battle on the Lexington Green. ..In 1861, over 40 years after his death, he became the subject of Paul Revere's Ride, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow took many liberties, giving credit to Revere for the collective achievements of the three riders, as well as claiming that the lanterns were a signal for Revere and not from him. As a result, historians often consider Revere's role exaggerated, becoming a national myth.
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St. Stephen's Church, formerly the New North Church, at 401 Hanover Street, was built to the Early Republic design of Charles Bullfinch in 1804—the last remaining church in Boston designed by Bullfinch. The church, made of red brick with white pilasters on the façade and topped by a clock tower and belfry, was originally the second home to the New North Religious Society, a Congregationalist group. In 1813 it became a Unitarian church. In 1862, as the North End became populated by an influx of Irish Catholics, the church was sold to Bishop Fitzpatrick and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston. It was at that time that a peak was built over the original domed cupola. When that parish closed in 1992, the church became the home for the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle. The interior is no longer entirely faithful to the original Bullfinch design, although the pulpit and pews are copied from originals long held in a Billerica church.
Boston Mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was a parishioner of St. Stephen’s. His daughter Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and mother of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy.
National Register #75000300 (1975)
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